US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 22 for "System and methods for controlling wireless device functionality when connected to roaming networks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,718, issued on April 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System and methods for controlling wireless device functionality when connected to roaming networks" was invented by Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Grant M. Castle (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nilesh Ranjan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives, from a telecommunications network subscribed to by the wireless device, a list of roaming networks. The system connects to a roaming network from the list of roaming networks. The system enters a roaming mode from a standard mode. The roaming mode reduces the amount of data used by the wireless d...